 | A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Buy used from: £7.92 For me personally, this is the most important book I've ever read, it genuinely changed my life and the way I think. This is a masterpiece in every way, and supremely well written.
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 | His Dark Materials Boxed set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £15.24 / Used from: £14.10 Quite frankly astonishing. The best fiction I've ever read, it blew my mind how one individual could produce something so expansive and so perfectly put together as this.
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy used from: £0.01 A beautiful book, in so many ways. Oscar Wilde's prose is like velvet, I simply love the skill of writing in this book.
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 | Karl Marx by Francis Wheen
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.95 This book sparked a life long interest in Marx, and a sympathy for the man who was so brilliant, yet so misunderstood in our times. Wheen writes a fantastic biography for Marx, first class.
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 | The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics) by Michel de Montaigne
Buy new: £12.00 / Used from: £9.00 I love the Renaissance, and I love this epitome of one brilliant and honest mans life in those times, the birth of the Essay form.
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 | Essays (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £6.61 Just a brilliant writer, simple as that. And his essays for me are better than his books, he is just sublime to read over and over.
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 | The Autobiography by Bertrand Russell
Buy new: £14.96 / Used from: £4.66 For me, this is sensational. Russell is so frank, yet such a talented writer, and you get a glimpse into his mind. You may not like it as much as I did, but for me it is seminal.
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